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Extracts of Letters from Arthur Phillip Esq. Governor of New South Wales, to Lord Sydney…
London: J. Debrett, 1791.
The rare supplement to Governor Phillip's account
Quarto, [ii],, 26 pp.; an excellent copy in half morocco over marbled boards by Bayntun of Bath, spine banded and lettered in gilt. One of the rarest of First Fleet books: 'there is keen competition among collectors when a......
Price (AUD):
$34,000.00
Ref: #4504401
Accounts and Papers relating to Convicts on board the Hulks, and those transported to New South Wales.
London: Ordered to be printed, 10th and 26th March 1792.
Including one of the first major descriptions of life on board a convict transport
Foolscap folio, 110 pp., the last a docket title; a large copy with wide margins, edges uncut; a good old binding of half dark calf; quarter.....
Price (AUD):
$24,500.00
Ref: #4504588
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay…
London: John Stockdale, 1789.
The foundation First Fleet account
Quarto, portrait and engraved title, seven folding engraved charts and 46 engraved plates; bound with the final leaf of advertisements; contemporary tree calf, well rebacked retaining original label; quarter morocco book-form box. A handsome copy of the official account of the.....
Price (AUD):
$11,000.00
Ref: #4504532
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay… Second Edition…
London: Stockdale, 1790.
A beautiful example of the rare second and "best" edition
Quarto, portrait and engraved title, seven folding engraved charts and 46 engraved plates; a splendid copy, with wide margins, in contemporary polished marbled calf, flat spine banded in gilt, red leather label. The very scarce well revised.....
Price (AUD):
$9,500.00
Ref: #4504400
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay…
London: John Stockdale, 1789.
First edition of the foundation book
Quarto, portrait and engraved title, seven folding engraved charts and 46 engraved plates; bound with the final leaf of advertisements; second state of the title-page, with a single name on the medallion; page 122 with the uncorrected mis-numbering 221, with.....
Price (AUD):
$12,000.00
Ref: #4504499